I'm bored, so I thought I'd jot down my top 10 favorite words.
Loquacious:
Talkative, chatty, talking too much.
Flibbertigibbet:
A flighty, chattering, light-headed person.
Ardent/ardently:
Passionate, fervent, eager, avid.
A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.
Renaissance:
The activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
(not sure why I like that one, but I love that word and its definition.)
Kaleidoscope:
An optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
Bourgeois:
A member of middle class. Of, or pertaining to, middle class.
Colloquial:
Characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
Expressionism:
Atonal and violent style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind.
Romantic:
A period in music history during the 18th and early 19th centuries where the focus shifted from the neoclassical style to an emotional, expressive, and imaginative style
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